by Dennis Bock (2013)
"A wrenching and dramatic story that explores the fabric of family from the bestselling author of THE ASH GARDEN. When Charlie Bellerose reunites with his flamboyant brother Nate, after two decades apart, their youthful rivalry seems forgotten. Drawn together again by their failed marriages, trying to survive in a world of long-distance parenting and hopeful reunions, they begin to imagine that they can be a new family of sorts. But Charlie's chance encounter with his first love, Holly, now happily married, unravels his past and complicates his present."--Publisher.
David Gilmour
"A heart-rending novel about end-of-life, family and children. EXTRAORDINARY is a gentle consideration of assisted suicide, but it is also a story about siblings - about how brothers and sisters turn out so differently; about how little, in fact, turns out the way we expect. In the end, this is a novel about the extraordinary business of being alive, and it may well be David Gilmour's very best work of fiction to date."--Publisher.
Wayne Johnston
Percy Joyce is afflicted from birth with a congenital disfigurement but a regular boy on the cusp of teenage-hood, filled with yearning, wild with hormones, longing for what he can't have, for wanting to be let in ... and let out; and his disturbingly alluring mother, Penelope, whose sex appeal fairly leaps off the page. Every man in St. John's lusts after her, including her sister-in-law Medina, her paying border, Pops MacDougall, with whom she carries on an affair of convenience - and Percy.
V. S. Naipaul
Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book is a celebrated work by V. S. Naipaul (Nobel Laureate, Booker Prize Winner), recognized for masterclass storytelling and lasting literary resonance.
André Brink
Philida by André Brink is an acclaimed literary masterpiece celebrating major critical honors and timeless storytelling.